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Quotes About Perseverance

Hepimiz kadere tabiyiz, ama hepimiz sanki deÄŸilmiÅŸiz gibi hareket etmeliyiz. dedi Cad?. Yoksa umutsuzluktan ölürüz.
~ Philip Pullman
your reading will be even better then, after a lifetime of thought and effort, because it will come from conscious understanding. Grace attained like that is deeper and fuller than grace that comes freely, and furthermore, once you've gained it, it will never leave you.
~ Philip Pullman
I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.
~ Philip Pullman
I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about for ever, all my atoms, till I find you again...
~ Philip Pullman
The Musicians of Bremen
~ Philip Pullman
Take the anchor, there. The first meaning of that is hope, because hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.
~ Philip Pullman
but knowing that she could do it wasn't the same as being able to do it just then.
~ Philip Pullman
The strength was draining out of him minute by minute. Maybe he'd never move again.
~ Philip Pullman
She felt half inclined to lie down and die. But her body wanted food and drink, and she took this as a sign that her body at least wanted to go on living.
~ Philip Pullman
Life is hard, Mr Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.
~ Philip Pullman
Pero entonces no habríamos podido construir. Nadie es capaz de hacerlo si antepone sus deseos. En nuestros diversos mundos, todos tenemos que esforzarnos en conseguir esas cosas tan difíciles como ser alegres, bondadosos, curiosos, valientes y pacientes, y tenemos que estudiar, pensar y trabajar duro, y entonces lograremos construir…
~ Philip Pullman
Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.
~ Philip Pullman
It was worth living a difficult life, if you had a great aim like that.
~ Philip Pullman
La vida es dura, señor Scoresby, pero aun así no dejamos de aferrarnos a ella.
~ Philip Pullman
some of what's good has to hurt us a little
~ Philip Pullman
Now, I want to get going, but I've only got one leg. Could you find one?
~ Philip Pullman
found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.
~ Philip Pullman
This was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.
~ Philip Pullman
As long as I live. As long as I live...
~ Philip Pullman
They looked as frail and doomed as a dam of little twigs and tiny pebbles trying to hold back the Mississippi. But they were trying, all the same. They'd go on trying till the end of everything.
~ Philip Pullman
Suppose it never stops? she whispered. The gyptian man didn't say it'd do that. Just that there was going to be a flood. It feels as if it's going on forever. There isn't enough water in all the world to do that. Eventually it'll stop and the sun'll come out. Every flood stops in the end and goes down.
~ Philip Pullman
Lyra encouraged, bullied, hit, half-carried, swore at, pushed, dragged, lifted tenderly, wherever it was needed, and Pantalaimon (by the state of each child's dæmon) told her what was needed in each case. I'll get them there, she kept saying to herself. I come here to get 'em and I'll bloody get 'em.
~ Philip Pullman
Lyra encouraged, bullied, hit, half-carried, swore at, pushed, dragged, lifted tenderly, wherever it was needed, and Pantalaimon (by the state of each child's dæmon) told her what was needed in each case.
~ Philip Pullman
I'll get them there, she kept saying to herself. I come here to get 'em and I'll bloody get 'em.
~ Philip Pullman